Lauretta+Schranz


 * SUMMARY: Homemaker Loretta Schranz, age 16, died on October 16, 1923 from an abortion perpetrated in Chicago by an unspecified perpetrator. **

On October 2, 1923, 16-year-old homemaker Loretta Schranz underwent a criminal abortion somewhere in Chicago. On October 16, she died at Chicago Hospital from complications of that abortion.

Ethel Davis and Lena Rumenstein were held by the coroner in Loretta's death. Their professions were not listed on my source document. Davis was indicted by a grand jury for felony murder on November 15.

Loretta, the wife of William Schranz, was the daughter of John and Mary (Smith) Gavin of Chicago.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s]. 

For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion] Source:

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 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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